The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-16
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


Observation-Disclosures Vista Merchants
Have a Lively Search for $1,2oC
That They Had Put Into Their Safe
and Could Not Find.
GEORGIA
About $500 bales of cotton have been re-
ceived at Hartwell this season. The same
time last year about CO., bales.
The Marshallville Cider and Vinegar
Company ships out thousands of gallons of
cider every week. The shipment on
Wednesday alone was nearly 1000 gallons.
r. A. McMahan, of Crawford, has in his
possession gold dollar bearing the date
1852, which makes it 1875 years old. Ii is a
Spanish coin and somewhat larger than the
gold dollar of the present day.
The old town hall at Athens will come
under the auctioneer's hammer in a few
DAYS. This is one of the old landmarks of
Athens, and has been the scene of many
political contest and midnight brawl.
George Butt of Buena Vista, ginned two
bales of cotton last week which turned out
well Out of !, 420 pounds of seed cotton he
made 526 pounds of lint, and out of ,222
pounds of seed cotton he made 443 pounds
of lint.
A sister sued brother in a Justice court
in Taylor county not long ago for s.. The
case was called, and the Justice urged the
counsel to go ahead, when the defendant
got up in open court and said: Here is your
s.. Take it"
One day last week Tom Andrews, of
Montezuma, found black bear in hollow
gum tree down the river at a point called
the Cut OFF," He cut the bear out of the
tree, and killed him with an ak. Bruin
weighed seventy five pounds
A. P. Richter, of Madison, is the possessor
of rare and interesting relic of the late
war II is a neatly finished iron cot, and is
the bed on which Gen. Albert Sidney John
ston breathed his last Mr.. Richter has in
disputable evidence that the great soldier
died on it.
McGinty & Hunnicutt, contractors, of
Athens, have now in their employ $50
hands and their payroll will reach 81 800
a week. These hands receive from soc. to
IS day for their work This includes
their brick yard, machine shop, carpenters
and bricklayers
An incendiary fire at Jerome MaSSey's
place, near Marshallville, Wednesday night
between IL and 10 o'clock, burned his gin
and engine houses, cotton press, ten bales of
cotton, 800 bushels cotton seed, two gins
and condensers and every other attachment
of his newly equipped Clubhouse
At Atlanta Friday, Station House Keeper
Foute went into a barber shop and was
shaved. Half an hour afterward the right
side of his neck commenced to swell, and in
ten minutes there was a huge Wen He does
not know what the swelling is or what
caused it, and feels little uneasy about it.
The Legislative Finance Committee that
has for several weeks been engaged in the
task of examining and overlooking the
books of the Treasury Department, COM
pleted its labors Friday. Everything was
found in q EatiSfa Glory condition, in tho do
partment, and the officials are given their
full need of praise for faithfulness and hon
esty. The report also contains the state
ment of the States exact financial condi-
ton, which will be of great interest to the
people.
Friday Comptroller General Wright re-
ceived S275 dividend from some telegraph
stock owned by the State of Georgia In the
Southern and Atlantic Telegraph Company
The company is defunct one, but the pay
ment of the dividend is in some way or other
guaranteed by thew estern Union Telegraph
Company. 1t has been so long since the
stock was secured that no one seems to
have any positive information just how
the State secured possession of it. The
dividend comes with regularity and
goes to the general fund in the State treas
ury.
AT Atlanta, Friday, in the Office of the
Clerk of the Superior Court, an application
was filed by R. j. Jordan, attorney, for a
charter for the 'Notla Consolidated Mar
bic, Iron and Tale Company" the incorpo-
rators of which are Isaac Kinsey, A. G.
Kinsey, r. J. Tolleson and others. The
capital stock of the company is $l,000,000,
with the privilege to increase it TO $40 ,000,-
COO. The shares are worth 800 each. The
main Office of the company is to be in At
lanta, and its business will be to mine and
quarry marble, tale and iron ores, and to
deal in mines and minerals.
Several years ago, when James A. Allison,
of Cuthbert, was clerking for Allison & At
kins, he was sent into the country to collect
an account, with instructions to board it
out" if he could collect 1t no other way. He
reached the house while before dinner and
was told by the debtor that he could not
possibly pay the bill. Jim told him what
his instructions were and awaited dinner
Dinner was announced and Jim partook
with the family. After watching him de-
vour one meal the debtor decided it would
be cheaper to pay the bill than to board Jim
week, went to neighbor, borrowed the
money and settled in full
Fort Valley Mirror: In a correspon-
dence between Gen. c. d. Anderson and his
old color-bearer of the Sixth Georgia, Col.
.. III. Quinn, of Macon, Gen. Anderson in
forms us that Col. Gum, in preparation for
the review on Oct. 30 at Macon, (which he
is much interested in sent him present of
suit OF clothes, on Wednesday, in which
he wished him to appear, while command
ing the old Sixth Georgia. The General
says he has his old Brigader Generals coat,
for which he paid 81 $780,, and we insist he
must wear that. The colors of the Sixth
Georgia, which General Anderson will take
up with him, are the same that Col Gum
was carrying when he received his wound
in the seven days battle around Richmond.
On Thursday evening last H. G. Durham,
Jr., who lives about mile from Watkins
vile, traded for Texas pony that had been
partly broke, and carried him home. That
night he tied it with rope that he might
catch it easily next morning, we suppose,
but it became frightened and began to surge
against the rope, when it broke, the pony
falling fat to the ground. In the fall it
struck a sharp stake which ran completely
through the body, killing it almost instant
ly. One day last week while Lewis Ander-
son was carrying g. couple of the same kind
of stock home one of them took a notion 1t
would not lead, and began to pull back on
the rope it was tied with, but the rope being
extra strong it could not break it, But be-
ing determined in its purpose it continued
To swing back until it broke its own neck
rather than be led.
Aleck Morris, who murdered Daniel
Lockett and cut the two unfortunate wom-
en-, near Madison, nearly two weeks ago, is
still at large There is no clue as to his